Mounting SMB volumes from FC6/FC7

Richard Shaw hobbes1069 at gmail.com
Fri Oct 26 02:57:24 UTC 2007


Bill Davidsen wrote:
> I need to mount a share from a computer to get control data in and 
> out. With an old FC1 machine I can readily mount the share:
>
>    mount -t smbfs //devcntl1/jobs /mnt/device-controllers/dev1
>
> However, doing this on FC6 fails completely. Checking the release 
> kernel I noted that smbfs was not available by default, so I had to 
> build a new kernel with smbfs support. However, it still won't 
> connect, so I'm a bit blocked on a way to do this simple mount.
>
> Search gave little information, other that newer Windows versions may 
> also speak CIFS, which the server in question refuses. Thought it 
> might be a superset, but tthe RFCs and tcpdump convinced me that no 
> matter what someone wrote these aren't the same protocol. The hardware 
> and operating system can't readily be upgraded, and the O/S is 
> Win95RT, a real-time version of Win95 used for device control.
>
> I'm running an old machine with functional SMB support and then moving 
> the data to a current machine, but I have to feel there's a better way.
>
> Doesn't this stuff get tested? I assume there's a way, but the fact 
> that it's not in the default kernel makes me suspicious that 
> interoperability may no longer be a priority.
>
Have you tried?

mount -t cifs //devcntl1/jobs /mnt/device-controllers/dev1

Thanks,
Richard




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